Visual Arts Class of 2021 MFA Thesis Exhibition I — Columbia University School of the Arts Visual Arts

Visual Arts MFA

Class of 2021 MFA Thesis Exhibition

Curated by Amy Sadao
Exhibition I: September 25–October 16, 2021
Exhibition II: October 30–November 20, 2021

Ivana Carman (left), Farah Mohammad (right)

Noga Cohen (left), Yuri Yuan, (middle), Rasel Ahmed (right)

Yuri Yuan (left), Rasel Ahmed (right)

Juan Hernández Diáz (front), Khari Turner (back)

Priscilla Jeong (left), Khari Turner (right)

Keli Maksud (left), Ian Decker (right)

Diana Palermo (left), Sergio Miguel (right)

Bicheng Liang (left), Yixuan Shao (right)

Lindsey Brittain Collins (left), Kevin Claiborne (right)

John Rivas (left), Kevin Claiborne (right)

Exhibition Information
The Columbia University School of the Arts Visual Arts Program presented the 2021 MFA Thesis Exhibition in two installments at the Lenfest Center for the Arts. This exhibition encompassed work by the 22 artists who completed the Visual Arts MFA Program May 2021 and graduated in October 2021. Curator Amy Sadao notes, “this exhibition of emerging contemporary art looks, sounds, feels like and responds to the world in which it is being made.”

Exhibition I Presenting Artists

Sound Artists
Avishag Cohen Rodrigues
Yixuan Shao

Visual Artists

Lindsey Brittain Collins
Kevin Claiborne
Ian Decker

Bicheng Liang
Keli Safia Maksud
Sergio Miguel

Diana Palermo
Denisse Griselda Reyes
John A. Rivas

Exhibition II Presenting Artists

Sound Artists
Tim Kwasny

Visual Artists

Rasel Ahmed
Ivana Carman
Noga Cohen
Juan Hernández Díaz

Priscilla Jeong
Farah Mohammad
Ava Snow Ravich
Khari Turner

Raelis Vasquez
Yuri Yuan

Exhibition I Virtual Tour

Exhibition II Virtual Tour

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